do bow effects just not work?

[XelNigma]

Iv had the sharpshooter mutation for a while, never really noticed it ever rooting anything.
Recently got the bee armor and tried it on a few ants. The pollen burst oddly spawns from me rather than the arrow. Rather strange and pretty pointless. but Iv also never once seen anything get stunned.

[Sindri Myr]

Same. so far I can't find any of the bow effects working either. Pollen shot seems bugged the pollen explosion happens on me the shooter and not the target I am shooting. That cant be intended who would use the bows in face to face range just to get the pollen shot burst on yourself? So I am assuming its bugged and not working correctly. And yes I have never noticed sharpshooter to work literally ever 400 hours of playing since release. Stun DOES work but its pretty laughable, you can pretty much only stun with the crossbows and it takes about 15 to 20 shots for a single stun. I have only been able to stun one bug so far and that's the wolf spider because he gets stuck all the time and has enough life too live so many shots he finally stuns for like 1 second.

I love this game it's such a cool concept but man the balance in this game seems scuffed. Some melee weapons are insanely op while others are pretty terrible. Bows seem in a very strange place. it seems like the devs made them very weak purely because they can be cheesed by the bad bug AI and how often they get stuck. It takes so many arrows to kill anything like the wolf spider it takes like 50-60 arrows.

[Jaggid Edje]

I stunned a mosquito one time (with the crow crossbow) and it ended up being useless because I was so stunned and shocked by it happening that the mosquito recovered before I did.

[Hoodzy]

The moth armor bleed effect works but I mean barely noticeable? I assume my marksman hat works too but idk

[XelNigma]

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[WuffWabbit]

Archery really needs a buff. Even with mutations, set bonuses, good arrows it seems to under-perform.